limitation

Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

n. The act of limiting or the state of being limited.

n. A restriction.

n. A shortcoming or defect.

n. Law A specified period during which, by statute, an action may be brought.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

n. The act of limiting or the state of being limited.

n. A restriction; a boundary, real or metaphorical, caused by some thing or some circumstance.

n. An imperfection or shortcoming which limits somethings use or value.

n. A time period after which some legal action may no longer be brought.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

n. The act of limiting; the state or condition of being limited.

n. That which limits; a restriction; a qualification; a restraining condition, defining circumstance, or qualifying conception.

n. A certain precinct within which friars were allowed to beg, or exercise their functions; also, the time during which they were permitted to exercise their functions in such a district.

n. A limited time within or during which something is to be done.

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n. A certain period limited by statute after which the claimant shall not enforce his claims by suit.

n. A settling of an estate or property by specific rules.

n. A restriction of power.

from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

n. The act of bounding or circumscribing; the fixing of a limit or restriction.

n. The condition of being limited, bounded, or circumscribed; restriction.

n. An opposing limit or bound; a fixed or prescribed restriction; a restraining condition, defining circumstance, or qualifying conception: as, limitations of thought.

n. That to which one is limited; that which is required as a condition.

n. In law: The period of time prescribed by law after which an action cannot be brought. Since the investigation of controversies becomes more difficult with the lapse of time, and long delay to sue may imply either that satisfaction has been received or that all claim is abandoned, and as it is vexatious to revive stale claims, the law allows fixed periods, varying with the nature of the grievance, within which, if at all, a claimant must apply to the courts.

n. In the law of conveyancing, the carving out of an estate less than a fee simple absolute (see fee); the prescribing of an ulterior direction for the devolution of an estate in case the estate of the primary grantee shall fail.

n. The particular district in which a limiter or begging friar was allowed to beg for alms.

Starling pointed to what he called a limitation of the study, that the bridged patients could well have differed somehow from the nonbridged patients in a way that contributed to their higher mortality.

It’s still a really awesome idea, especially for cross-universe comparisons, but it’s main limitation is how well the designers of these imaginary craft researched how big their craft SHOULD be, before putting out a number that sounds good.